| HEALTH-PHILIPPINES Young Lives Up in Smoke By Kara Santos | MANILA‚ Feb 15‚ 2010 (IPS) - Whether they choose to light up their first cigarette on their own or are unwitting victims of passive smoking‚ Filipino youth are increasingly at risk from tobacco exposure. "The younger a child starts to smoke‚ the greater the chances of becoming a regular smoker‚" said Dr Maricar Limpin‚ executive director of the non- government group Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines
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Teenagers should not be treated as adults when they are mentally undeveloped and are not capable of thinking twice about the consequences to their actions. Teenagers are at a sensitive stage in their life where thinking twice about a decision is not taken seriously‚ they become numb to what people advice and act solely on natural impulses. In “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains” by Paul Thomson‚ a research group at the University of California has noticed a “pattern of brain growth in individual children and teenagers
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unborn child. There are many teenagers all over the United States facing untimely pregnancies. Statistics on teenage pregnancy show that this is a common problem in society. “One in ten women between the ages of fifteen and nineteen are faced with pregnancy” (Birthright). Since most people do not see it in their everyday lives‚ not many people realize how extensive the problem of teenage pregnancy really is. According to Teen Help‚ “34 percent of teenagers have at least one pregnancy before they turn 20” (Teen Help)
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Why do teenagers drink? * Because they don’t truly care about them and believe that it should be equal to educate which is false because education is helping us grow‚ discover who we are‚ to see what is right and what is wrong. Most of the time teenagers drink for anger or because they’re disappointment at something. * Because they can’t treat with kids when they start to become adults (maybe because they didn’t find themselves the answers they were looking for when they were kids and
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the article about confidentiality for teenagers. In the article it offered very interesting insight as to why teenagers avoid going to receive reproductive care services. It was found that the number one reason for teens not seeking reproductive health services is because of their parents. The reasons teenagers wanted the confidentiality of their visits kept away from their parents was mainly from fear of retribution or to start acting like an adult. Teenagers want to advocate for their own sexual
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Almost every teenager wants a job‚ yet many people are against it. I believe teenagers should have after-school jobs for a number of reasons. First‚ having a son or a daughter that works can financially help the parents. Also‚ the experience the teenager will acquire from after-school jobs will help him or her on future jobs. Finally‚ teenagers should have after-school jobs because it will keep them away from trouble. Parents should realize that as long as their son or daughter wants an after-school
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I firmly believe that enacting a law making it illegal for teenagers to be out on the streets after 10 p.m. on weekdays or after midnight on weekends is a very intelligent notion. This curfew would help to keep teenagers out of trouble and away from the dangers of drugs and alcohol. It may also help to improve their grades. This new law could also aid in the reduction in the amounts of kidnappings and rapes of teenagers. This curfew is a new and insightful idea. Drunk driving‚ alcohol poisoning
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just representing how much money that teenagers’ get; it also represents teenagers’ buying tendency‚ marketing size of teenagers‚ their finance method and possible reasons of stress because of financial problem. It’s worth to make a statistic on the topic teenager’s pocket money‚ for the reference of further studies on social research. In this report‚ the following data would be collected and analyzed. Firstly‚ we want to compare the pocket money teenagers how to spend their pocket money in past
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Masaryk University in Brno Faculty of Education Department of English Language and Literature TIPS FOR USING FANTASY BOOKS WITH TEENAGERS Diploma Thesis Brno 2009 Supervisor: Written by: PhDr. Alena Kašpárková Kateřina Vařechová 1 Acknowledgements: I would like to give special thanks to my supervisor‚ PhDr. Alena Kašpárková‚ for her kind help and advice. She willingly commented on my thesis. 2 Declaration: I declare that I worked on the thesis on my own
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anti-Semitic in nature‚ various media outlets mislead readers with vague headlines and biased outlooks. Less than two weeks ago‚ The Wall Street Journal covered yet another violent outbreak in our Homeland. The article‚ titled‚ “Two Palestinian Teenagers Killed‚ Two Injured by Israeli Police‚” failed to objectively present readers with a factual story. For anyone reading this headline‚ it appears as though the Israeli Police demonstrated unjustified force against Palestinians. Any truth to the events
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